It’s so wild to experience the tube with no people. So surreal.

The best spot is wherever there is a power outlet. So funny.

Me looking very cheerful.

This is the best view ever, btw. Nothing beats seeing the world from the skies.

Hunting for food, in the middle of the night over at the hotel.

“Mandatory” make-up selfie.

When you’ve been living in the UK for way too long, you re-create the “meal-deal” when you are abroad 😛 See what I mean?

When my stay was over at the hotel, I had the most amazing host ever. An old family friend of ours called Kjell. A former business man, he told me of all of his adventures from doing business in Africa, to being a ski instructor in California, from being a teacher, to working at a hospital being in charge of a number of exciting things. He told of fist fights with a gang in America, hunting trips to the Balkans next to what would become Tito’s hunting lodge and a scandalous, headline grabbing news story involving a sea plane and a police officer who decided to hang onto one of the floats on said plane, as he was trying to catch the pilot ( a friend of Kjell), who had been shooting whatever deer he could find, which is illegal 😮

A very entertaining stay indeed, I had the time of my life. Here you got Kjell, a real life “Indiana Jones” type of character, a proper adventurer \m/

“The life of the rich & the famous” 😛

Swimming on top of the Aker brygge skyline in Oslo. The most exclusive area to live in Norway.

If you are ever making Mussels….I’ll help you out a little…

First, you gotta sort them out. Any mussel that is open already from the store you gotta throw away.

Then you gotta “steam” them. Which means that you need a steam cooker!

If a Mussel doesn’t open up after steaming, you have to dispose of it. Steam them until they open up and have a nice orang-y colour.

Then you are ready to dive in 🙂

Perfect dinner for two 🙂

The only thing nicer than reading to yourself, is reading aloud.

Especially if the literature of choice is amazing poetry.

I love Jakob Sande.

I don’t know if you can find his work in English, if you can’t you should learn Norwegian so you can read this 😛

Yes, here is a picture of something seriously mundane. A dishwasher. But I had never seen anything like it and loved that you put your cutlery up there in stead. Apparently it makes your forks & knifes cleaner. So there, I learned something new.

Hmmmm…..no Cecil the Lion? I used to sleep on top of that Canadian Bear when I was a kid, I would sleepover in the room where all the hunting rifles were. It made quite an impression on me as a child.

Whenever I was in Norway as a child I always felt that there was a Moose head staring at me. Seriously, there was always a moose head or a reindeer head hanging somewhere when you went to a house.

I remember I saw my “uncle” cut up a Moose once, Jesuuus, poor thing.

There was always a spinning wheel to be found somewhere as well….

Look at that view!

You will never run out of shrimps in Norway.

No excuse. If you can’t go online, go for pen & paper.

Here are some pics from Aardal ( Fossenes dal = The Valley of the waterfalls) in Sogn & Fjordane.

A Norwegian bakery.

This Ladies & Gentlemen is a proper Norwegian mountain tunnel. I was so fascinated that I took a gazillion pictures and even some films. It’s so tight that only one car can drive at the time, meaning…you got some “pockets” on the side of this…ehm…road..where you can go if you encounter any traffic in the non-existent other lane.

This was very cool though. Notice how you are truly in a cave. Hardly any smooth lines.

We went for a picturesque drive to check out “Offerdalen” which directly translated, if you were to be creative, sounds more like ” The Valley Of Sacrifice”… sounds very Viking-ish to me!

That is a very Norwegian looking farm btw, that’s the style.

Here they would cut up trees…or would that be timber? Not quite sure how to explain it, but this is old and out of use obviously. They cut down the trees in the forest and sent the wood down the stream and that eventually led the trees here, where they were cut up. These buildings are a fine example of Norwegian heritage when it comes to old buildings and how things were once upon a time.

The water is so clean that you could actually drink right out from the stream. I was so tempted but I didn’t dare…I was afraid of catching an infection or something, so silly. If I ever go there again I’ll give it a go.

Dad & me.

This Ladies & Gentlemen is a Norwegian “ute do” ( outside toilet)

It’s obviously the ancient version of toilet. But for some strange reason there is this Norwegian tradition that you should keep a cabin up in the mountains, this cabin should preferably have no water ( so you will have to go and pump it out from somewhere or collect rain water) and to stay true to tradition this cabin should also include the “iconic” “outside-toilet”. So when I was a kid, believe it or not, I also had the privilege of experiencing the “ute do”. I don’t think it is that common anymore now. But here you got one.

More of the lovely panorama.

Some information…We had an ancient Stabbur when I was little, in fact we had two. And we also had a house where one half was modern and the other half was really, really old, with a “Grue” which is a fireplace you put a cauldron in & stand upright in…and there was also grass on the ceiling. So pretty, so romantic.

Just a random waterfall…

Quality time with Grandpa 🙂

In Norway, we watch chess tournaments…Here we are watching Magnus Carlsen kicking ass.

And here is a picture of Grandpa playing chess with his brother. Look at the style. So cool.

There are some old copper & silver mines in Aardal so we decided to go and take a look 🙂

Check these pictures out, so cool! I can’t believe I’ve been inside a REAL mine!!!

You gotta write down your name!

And here we have reached our destination!

Check out how awesome this looks like!!!!

I was almost expecting a Dragon or something.

Aardal by night.

Yummy. I love Marzipan cake. Yum yum.

There is no end to how many books Grandpa has. It’s so cool. I love literature and once again as I said previously, reading alone is great but reading together is way more fun.

Grandpa loves Russian culture. He made the Icon in the middle himself.

Saying goodbye after a week up in the Norse mountains.

Suitable reading material. Funny enough I wrote an entry on the 8th of March about badass women where I included a number of female Russian snipers. 20 Badass Women! It’s so weird for me to read Norwegian these days. I gotta do it more.

Back home in the UK!

And back to doing this sort of thing…